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Linus Torvalds
96d4f267e4 Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
2c1bb29aa6 firewire: use 64-bit time_t based interfaces
32-bit CLOCK_REALTIME timestamps overflow in year 2038, so all such
interfaces are deprecated now.  For the FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER2
ioctl, we already support 64-bit timestamps, but the implementation
still uses timespec.

This changes the code to use timespec64 instead with the appropriate
accessor functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180711124456.1023039-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 16:20:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a9a08845e9 vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
Al Viro
afc9a42b74 the rest of drivers/*: annotate ->poll() instances
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-28 11:06:58 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
d3e709e63e idr: Return the deleted entry from idr_remove
It is a relatively common idiom (8 instances) to first look up an IDR
entry, and then remove it from the tree if it is found, possibly doing
further operations upon the entry afterwards.  If we change idr_remove()
to return the removed object, all of these users can save themselves a
walk of the IDR tree.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
2017-02-13 21:44:03 -05:00
Andy Lutomirski
a25045ff32 firewire: use in_compat_syscall to check ioctl compatness
Firewire was using is_compat_task to check whether it was in a compat
ioctl or a non-compat ioctl.  Use is_compat_syscall instead so it works
properly on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Mel Gorman
d0164adc89 mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Stefan Richter
eaca2d8e75 firewire: cdev: prevent kernel stack leaking into ioctl arguments
Found by the UC-KLEE tool:  A user could supply less input to
firewire-cdev ioctls than write- or write/read-type ioctl handlers
expect.  The handlers used data from uninitialized kernel stack then.

This could partially leak back to the user if the kernel subsequently
generated fw_cdev_event_'s (to be read from the firewire-cdev fd)
which notably would contain the _u64 closure field which many of the
ioctl argument structures contain.

The fact that the handlers would act on random garbage input is a
lesser issue since all handlers must check their input anyway.

The fix simply always null-initializes the entire ioctl argument buffer
regardless of the actual length of expected user input.  That is, a
runtime overhead of memset(..., 40) is added to each firewirew-cdev
ioctl() call.  [Comment from Clemens Ladisch:  This part of the stack is
most likely to be already in the cache.]

Remarks:
  - There was never any leak from kernel stack to the ioctl output
    buffer itself.  IOW, it was not possible to read kernel stack by a
    read-type or write/read-type ioctl alone; the leak could at most
    happen in combination with read()ing subsequent event data.
  - The actual expected minimum user input of each ioctl from
    include/uapi/linux/firewire-cdev.h is, in bytes:
    [0x00] = 32, [0x05] =  4, [0x0a] = 16, [0x0f] = 20, [0x14] = 16,
    [0x01] = 36, [0x06] = 20, [0x0b] =  4, [0x10] = 20, [0x15] = 20,
    [0x02] = 20, [0x07] =  4, [0x0c] =  0, [0x11] =  0, [0x16] =  8,
    [0x03] =  4, [0x08] = 24, [0x0d] = 20, [0x12] = 36, [0x17] = 12,
    [0x04] = 20, [0x09] = 24, [0x0e] =  4, [0x13] = 40, [0x18] =  4.

Reported-by: David Ramos <daramos@stanford.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2014-11-14 12:10:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
889235ce2b firewire: Use ktime_get_ts()
do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() is a leftover from the initial
posix timer implementation which maps to ktime_get_ts()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611234607.351283464@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-06-12 16:18:45 +02:00
Stefan Richter
0a41981803 firewire: core: typecast from gfp_t to bool more safely
An idr related patch introduced the following sparse warning:
  drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c:488:33: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
  drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c:488:33:    expected bool [unsigned] [usertype] preload
  drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c:488:33:    got restricted gfp_t
So let's convert from gfp_t bitfield to Boolean explicitly and safely.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2013-07-30 15:46:18 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
0699a73af3 firewire: fix libdc1394/FlyCap2 iso event regression
Commit 18d627113b (firewire: prevent dropping of completed iso packet
header data) was intended to be an obvious bug fix, but libdc1394 and
FlyCap2 depend on the old behaviour by ignoring all returned information
and thus not noticing that not all packets have been received yet.  The
result was that the video frame buffers would be saved before they
contained the correct data.

Reintroduce the old behaviour for old clients.

Tested-by: Stepan Salenikovich <stepan.salenikovich@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Josep Bosch <jep250@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2013-07-27 20:24:36 +02:00
Stefan Richter
cfb0c9d1ff firewire: remove unnecessary alloc/OOM messages
These are redundant to log messages from the mm core.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2013-04-28 23:36:44 +02:00
Stefan Richter
bdabfa5463 firewire: core: remove an always false test
struct fw_cdev_allocate_iso_resource.bandwidth is unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2013-04-28 23:36:43 +02:00
Tejun Heo
37b61890d7 firewire: convert to idr_alloc()
Convert to the much saner new idr interface.

v2: Stefan pointed out that add_client_resource() may be called from
    non-process context.  Preload iff @gfp_mask contains __GFP_WAIT.
    Also updated to include minor upper limit check.

[tim.gardner@canonical.com: fix accidentally orphaned 'minor'[
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:15 -08:00
Tejun Heo
748689d40c firewire: don't use idr_remove_all()
idr_destroy() can destroy idr by itself and idr_remove_all() is being
deprecated.  Drop its usage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:13 -08:00
Stefan Richter
790198f74c firewire: cdev: fix user memory corruption (i386 userland on amd64 kernel)
Fix two bugs of the /dev/fw* character device concerning the
FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl with nonzero fw_cdev_get_info.bus_reset.
(Practically all /dev/fw* clients issue this ioctl right after opening
the device.)

Both bugs are caused by sizeof(struct fw_cdev_event_bus_reset) being 36
without natural alignment and 40 with natural alignment.

 1) Memory corruption, affecting i386 userland on amd64 kernel:
    Userland reserves a 36 bytes large buffer, kernel writes 40 bytes.
    This has been first found and reported against libraw1394 if
    compiled with gcc 4.7 which happens to order libraw1394's stack such
    that the bug became visible as data corruption.

 2) Information leak, affecting all kernel architectures except i386:
    4 bytes of random kernel stack data were leaked to userspace.

Hence limit the respective copy_to_user() to the 32-bit aligned size of
struct fw_cdev_event_bus_reset.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-10-09 18:26:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
0b6c4857f7 firewire: core: fix DMA mapping direction
Seen with recent libdc1394:  If a client mmap()s the buffer of an
isochronous reception buffer with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE instead of just
PROT_READ, firewire-core sets the wrong DMA mapping direction during
buffer initialization.

The fix is to split fw_iso_buffer_init() into allocation and DMA mapping
and to perform the latter after both buffer and DMA context were
allocated.  Buffer allocation and context allocation may happen in any
order, but we need the context type (reception or transmission) in order
to set the DMA direction of the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2012-04-17 22:27:37 +02:00
David Howells
9ffc93f203 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
d1bbd20972 firewire: allow explicit flushing of iso packet completions
Extend the kernel and userspace APIs to allow reporting all currently
completed isochronous packets, even if the next interrupt packet has not
yet been reached.  This is required to determine the status of the
packets at the end of a paused or stopped stream, and useful for more
precise synchronization of audio streams.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2012-03-18 22:15:39 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
18d627113b firewire: prevent dropping of completed iso packet header data
The buffer for the header data of completed iso packets has a fixed
size, so it is possible to configure a stream with a big interval
between interrupt packets or with big headers so that this buffer would
overflow.  Previously, ohci.c would drop any data that would not fit,
but this could make unsuspecting applications believe that fewer than
the actual number of packets have completed.

Instead of dropping data, add calls to flush_iso_completion() so that
there are as many events as needed to report all of the data.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2012-03-18 22:15:39 +01:00
Stefan Richter
26b4950de1 firewire: core: prefix log messages with card name
Associate all log messages from firewire-core with the respective card
because some people have more than one card.  E.g.
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800
turns into
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core 0000:05:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800

This increases the module size slightly; to keep this in check, turn the
former printk wrapper macros into functions.  Their implementation is
largely copied from driver core's dev_printk counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2012-02-22 22:36:00 +01:00
Stefan Richter
9c1176b6a2 firewire: cdev: fix 32 bit userland on 64 bit kernel compat corner cases
Clemens points out that we need to use compat_ptr() in order to safely
cast from u64 to addresses of a 32-bit usermode client.

Before, our conversion went wrong
  - in practice if the client cast from pointer to integer such that
    sign-extension happened, (libraw1394 and libdc1394 at least were not
    doing that, IOW were not affected)
or
  - in theory on s390 (which doesn't have FireWire though) and on the
    tile architecture, regardless of what the client does.
The bug would usually be observed as the initial get_info ioctl failing
with "Bad address" (EFAULT).

Reported-by: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-08-12 15:30:08 +02:00
Stefan Richter
93b37905f7 firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing
Between open(2) of a /dev/fw* and the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl(2) on it, the kernel already queues FW_CDEV_EVENT_BUS_RESET events
to be read(2) by the client.  The get_info ioctl is practically always
issued right away after open, hence this condition only occurs if the
client opens during a bus reset, especially during a rapid series of bus
resets.

The problem with this condition is twofold:

  - These bus reset events carry the (as yet undocumented) @closure
    value of 0.  But it is not the kernel's place to choose closures;
    they are privat to the client.  E.g., this 0 value forced from the
    kernel makes it unsafe for clients to dereference it as a pointer to
    a closure object without NULL pointer check.

  - It is impossible for clients to determine the relative order of bus
    reset events from get_info ioctl(2) versus those from read(2),
    except in one way:  By comparison of closure values.  Again, such a
    procedure imposes complexity on clients and reduces freedom in use
    of the bus reset closure.

So, change the ABI to suppress queuing of bus reset events before the
first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl was issued by the client.

Note, this ABI change cannot be version-controlled.  The kernel cannot
distinguish old from new clients before the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl.

We will try to back-merge this change into currently maintained stable/
longterm series, and we only document the new behaviour.  The old
behavior is now considered a kernel bug, which it basically is.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-07-16 07:24:32 +02:00
Stefan Richter
d873d79423 firewire: cdev: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented ioctls, not -EINVAL
On Jun 27 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The correct error code for "I don't understand this ioctl" is ENOTTY.
> The naming may be odd, but you should think of that error value as a
> "unrecognized ioctl number, you're feeding me random numbers that I
> don't understand and I assume for historical reasons that you tried to
> do some tty operation on me".
[...]
> The EINVAL thing goes way back, and is a disaster. It predates Linux
> itself, as far as I can tell. You'll find lots of man-pages that have
> this line in it:
>
>   EINVAL Request or argp is not valid.
>
> and it shows up in POSIX etc. And sadly, it generally shows up
> _before_ the line that says
>
>   ENOTTY The specified request does not apply to the kind of object
> that the descriptor d references.
>
> so a lot of people get to the EINVAL, and never even notice the ENOTTY.
[...]
> At least glibc (and hopefully other C libraries) use a _string_ that
> makes much more sense: strerror(ENOTTY) is "Inappropriate ioctl for
> device"

So let's correct this in the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI while it is
still young, relative to distributor adoption.

Side note:  We return -ENOTTY not only on _IOC_TYPE or _IOC_NR mismatch,
but also on _IOC_SIZE mismatch.  An ioctl with an unsupported size of
argument structure can be seen as an unsupported version of that ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-07-16 07:24:31 +02:00
Stefan Richter
105e53f863 firewire: sbp2: parallelize login, reconnect, logout
The struct sbp2_logical_unit.work items can all be executed in parallel
but are not reentrant.  Furthermore, reconnect or re-login work must be
executed in a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue.

Hence replace the old single-threaded firewire-sbp2 workqueue by a
concurrency-managed but non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer.
firewire-core already maintains one, hence use this one.

In earlier versions of this change, I observed occasional failures of
parallel INQUIRY to an Initio INIC-2430 FireWire 800 to dual IDE bridge.
More testing indicates that parallel INQUIRY is not actually a problem,
but too quick successions of logout and login + INQUIRY, e.g. a quick
sequence of cable plugout and plugin, can result in failed INQUIRY.
This does not seem to be something that should or could be addressed by
serialization.

Another dual-LU device to which I currently have access to, an
OXUF924DSB FireWire 800 to dual SATA bridge with firmware from MacPower,
has been successfully tested with this too.

This change is beneficial to environments with two or more FireWire
storage devices, especially if they are located on the same bus.
Management tasks that should be performed as soon and as quickly as
possible, especially reconnect, are no longer held up by tasks on other
devices that may take a long time, especially login with INQUIRY and sd
or sr driver probe.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-05-10 22:53:46 +02:00
Stefan Richter
6ea9e7bbfc firewire: core: use non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer
firewire-core manages the following types of work items:

fw_card.br_work:
  - resets the bus on a card and possibly sends a PHY packet before that
  - does not sleep for long or not at all
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bus_reset() by
      - firewire-ohci's pci_probe method
      - firewire-ohci's set_config_rom method, called by kernelspace
        protocol drivers and userspace drivers which add/remove
	Configuration ROM descriptors
      - userspace drivers which use the bus reset ioctl
      - itself if the last reset happened less than 2 seconds ago

fw_card.bm_work:
  - performs bus management duties
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bm_work() by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances whenever the root node
        device was (successfully or unsuccessfully) discovered,
	refreshed, or rediscovered
      - itself in case of resource allocation failures or in order to
        obey the 125ms bus manager arbitration interval

fw_device.work:
  - performs node probe, update, shutdown, revival, removal; including
    kernel driver probe, update, shutdown and bus reset notification to
    userspace drivers
  - usually sleeps moderately long, in corner cases very long
  - is scheduled by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet via the
        core's fw_node_event
      - firewire-ohci's pci_remove method via core's fw_destroy_nodes/
        fw_node_event
      - itself during retries, e.g. while a node is powering up

iso_resource.work:
  - accesses registers at the Isochronous Resource Manager node
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via schedule_iso_resource() by
      - the owning userspace driver at addition and removal of the
        resource
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances after bus reset
      - itself in case of resource allocation if necessary to obey the
        1000ms reallocation period after bus reset

fw_card.br_work instances should not, and instances of the others must
not, be executed in parallel by multiple CPUs -- but were not protected
against that.  Hence allocate a non-reentrant workqueue for them.

fw_device.work may be used in the memory reclaim path in case of SBP-2
device updates.  Hence we need a workqueue with rescuer and cannot use
system_nrt_wq.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-05-10 22:53:45 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
13882a82ee firewire: optimize iso queueing by setting wake only after the last packet
When queueing iso packets, the run time is dominated by the two
MMIO accesses that set the DMA context's wake bit.  Because most
drivers submit packets in batches, we can save much time by
removing all but the last wakeup.

The internal kernel API is changed to require a call to
fw_iso_context_queue_flush() after a batch of queued packets.
The user space API does not change, so one call to
FW_CDEV_IOC_QUEUE_ISO must specify multiple packets to take
advantage of this optimization.

In my measurements, this patch reduces the time needed to queue
fifty skip packets from userspace to one sixth on a 2.5 GHz CPU,
or to one third at 800 MHz.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-05-10 22:53:45 +02:00
Stefan Richter
f30e6d3e41 firewire: octlet AT payloads can be stack-allocated
We do not need slab allocations anymore in order to satisfy
streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to commit da28947e7e
"firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-core, firewire-sbp2,
and firedtv used to provide for 8-byte write and lock requests were
still not fully portable since they crossed cacheline boundaries or
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.  snd-firewire-lib
got this aspect right by using an extra kmalloc/ kfree just for the
8-byte transaction buffer.)

This change replaces kmalloc'ed lock transaction scratch buffers in
firewire-core, firedtv, and snd-firewire-lib by local stack allocations.
Perhaps the most notable result of the change is simpler locking because
there is no need to serialize usages of preallocated per-device buffers
anymore.  Also, allocations and deallocations are simpler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2011-05-10 22:53:44 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
e71084af58 firewire: core: fix card->reset_jiffies overflow
On a 32-bit machine with, e.g., HZ=1000, jiffies will overflow after
about 50 days, so if there are between 25 and 50 days between bus
resets, the card->reset_jiffies comparisons can get wrong results.

To fix this, ensure that this timestamp always uses 64 bits.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-01-23 12:31:01 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
dbc9880fa7 firewire: cdev: remove unneeded reference
For outbound transactions, the IDR's and the callback's references now
have exactly the same lifetime, so we do not need both of them.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-01-23 12:31:01 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
5a5e62da9b firewire: cdev: always wait for outbound transactions to complete
We must not use fw_cancel_transaction() because it cannot correctly
abort still-active transactions.  The only place in core-cdev where this
matters is when the file is released.  Instead of trying to abort the
transactions, we wait for them to complete normally, i.e., until all
outbound transaction resources have been removed from the IDR tree.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-01-23 12:31:00 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
3e204dfcaf firewire: cdev: remove unneeded idr_find() from complete_transaction()
Outbound transactions are never aborted with release_client_resource(),
so it is not necessary for complete_transaction() to check whether the
resource is still registered.  Only shutdown_resource() can abort such
an transaction, and this is already handled with the in_shutdown check.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2011-01-23 12:31:00 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
5b06db166c firewire: make PHY packet header format consistent
Change the header of PHY packets to be sent to include a pseudo
transaction code.  This makes the header consistent with that of
received PHY packets, and allows at_context_queue_packet() and
log_ar_at_event() to see the packet type directly instead of having
to deduce it from the header length or even from the header contents.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-12-13 20:39:14 +01:00
Stefan Richter
e78483c5ae Merge firewire branches to be released post v2.6.35
Conflicts:
	drivers/firewire/core-card.c
	drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c

and forgotten #include <linux/time.h> in drivers/firewire/ohci.c

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-08-02 10:09:04 +02:00
Stefan Richter
872e330e38 firewire: add isochronous multichannel reception
This adds the DMA context programming and userspace ABI for multichannel
reception, i.e. for listening on multiple channel numbers by means of a
single DMA context.

The use case is reception of more streams than there are IR DMA units
offered by the link layer.  This is already implemented by the older
ohci1394 + ieee1394 + raw1394 stack.  And as discussed recently on
linux1394-devel, this feature is occasionally used in practice.

The big drawbacks of this mode are that buffer layout and interrupt
generation necessarily differ from single-channel reception:  Headers
and trailers are not stripped from packets, packets are not aligned with
buffer chunks, interrupts are per buffer chunk, not per packet.

These drawbacks also cause a rather hefty code footprint to support this
rarely used OHCI-1394 feature.  (367 lines added, among them 94 lines of
added userspace ABI documentation.)

This implementation enforces that a multichannel reception context may
only listen to channels to which no single-channel context on the same
link layer is presently listening to.  OHCI-1394 would allow to overlay
single-channel contexts by the multi-channel context, but this would be
a departure from the present first-come-first-served policy of IR
context creation.

The implementation is heavily based on an earlier one by Jay Fenlason.
Thanks Jay.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-29 23:09:18 +02:00
Stefan Richter
ae2a976614 firewire: core: small clarifications in core-cdev
Make a note on the seemingly unused linux/sched.h.
Rename an irritatingly named variable.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-29 23:09:18 +02:00
Stefan Richter
69e61d0c07 firewire: core: remove unused code
ioctl_create_iso_context enforces ctx->header_size >= 4.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-29 23:06:25 +02:00
Stefan Richter
8e2b2b46ea firewire: cdev: improve FW_CDEV_IOC_ALLOCATE
In both the ieee1394 stack and the firewire stack, the core treats
kernelspace drivers better than userspace drivers when it comes to
CSR address range allocation:  The former may request a register to be
placed automatically at a free spot anywhere inside a specified address
range.  The latter may only request a register at a fixed offset.

Hence, userspace drivers which do not require a fixed offset potentially
need to implement a retry loop with incremented offset in each retry
until the kernel does not fail allocation with EBUSY.  This awkward
procedure is not fundamentally necessary as the core already provides a
superior allocation API to kernelspace drivers.

Therefore change the ioctl() ABI by addition of a region_end member in
the existing struct fw_cdev_allocate.  Userspace and kernelspace APIs
work the same way now.

There is a small cost to pay by clients though:  If client source code
is required to compile with older kernel headers too, then any use of
the new member fw_cdev_allocate.region_end needs to be enclosed by
#ifdef/#endif directives.  However, any client program that seriously
wants to use address range allocations will require a kernel of cdev ABI
version >= 4 at runtime and a linux/firewire-cdev.h header of >= 4
anyway.  This is because v4 brings FW_CDEV_EVENT_REQUEST2.  The only
client program in which build-time compatibility with struct
fw_cdev_allocate as found in older kernel headers makes sense is
libraw1394.

(libraw1394 uses the older broken FW_CDEV_EVENT_REQUEST to implement a
makeshift, incorrect transaction responder that does at least work
somewhat in many simple scenarios, relying on guesswork by libraw1394
and by libraw1394 based applications.  Plus, address range allocation
and transaction responder is only one of many features that libraw1394
needs to provide, and these other features need to work with kernel and
kernel-headers as old as possible.  Any new linux/firewire-cdev.h based
client that implements a transaction responder should never attempt to
do it like libraw1394;  instead it should make a header and kernel of v4
or later a hard requirement.)

While we are at it, update the struct fw_cdev_allocate documentation to
better reflect the recent fw_cdev_event_request2 ABI addition.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-23 13:36:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
cc550216ae firewire: cdev: add PHY pinging
This extends the FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_PHY_PACKET ioctl() for /dev/fw* to be
useful for ping time measurements.  One application for it would be gap
count optimization in userspace that is based on ping times rather than
hop count.  (The latter is implemented in firewire-core itself but is
not applicable to beta PHYs that act as repeater.)

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-23 13:36:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
bf54e1462b firewire: cdev: add PHY packet reception
Add an FW_CDEV_IOC_RECEIVE_PHY_PACKETS ioctl() and
FW_CDEV_EVENT_PHY_PACKET_RECEIVED poll()/read() event for /dev/fw*.
This can be used to get information from remote PHYs by remote access
PHY packets.

This is also the 2nd half of the functionality (the receive part) to
support a userspace implementation of a VersaPHY transaction layer.

Safety considerations:

  - PHY packets are generally broadcasts, hence some kind of elevated
    privileges should be required of a process to be able to listen in
    on PHY packets.  This implementation assumes that a process that is
    allowed to open the /dev/fw* of a local node does have this
    privilege.

    There was an inconclusive discussion about introducing POSIX
    capabilities as a means to check for user privileges for these
    kinds of operations.

Other limitations:

  - PHY packet reception may be switched on by ioctl() but cannot be
    switched off again.  It would be trivial to provide an off switch,
    but this is not worth the code.  The client should simply close()
    the fd then, or just ignore further events.

  - For sake of simplicity of API and kernel-side implementation, no
    filter per packet content is provided.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-23 13:36:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
850bb6f23b firewire: cdev: add PHY packet transmission
Add an FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_PHY_PACKET ioctl() for /dev/fw* which can be
used to implement bus management related functionality in userspace.

This is also half of the functionality (the transmit part) that is
needed to support a userspace implementation of a VersaPHY transaction
layer.

Safety considerations:

  - PHY packets are generally broadcasts and may have interesting
    effects on PHYs and the bus, e.g. make asynchronous arbitration
    impossible due to too low gap count.  Hence some kind of elevated
    privileges should be required of a process to be able to send
    PHY packets.  This implementation assumes that a process that is
    allowed to open the /dev/fw* of a local node does have this
    privilege.

    There was an inconclusive discussion about introducing POSIX
    capabilities as a means to check for user privileges for these
    kinds of operations.

  - The kernel does not check integrity of the supplied packet data.
    That would be far too much code, considering the many kinds of
    PHY packets.  A process which got the privilege to send these
    packets is trusted to do it correctly.

Just like with the other "send packet" ioctls, a non-blocking API is
chosen; i.e. the ioctl may return even before AT DMA started.  After
transmission, an event for poll()/read() is enqueued.  Most users are
going to need a blocking API, but a blocking userspace wrapper is easy
to implement, and the second of the two existing libraw1394 calls
raw1394_phy_packet_write() and raw1394_start_phy_packet_write() can be
better supported that way.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-23 13:36:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
b9dc61cf40 firewire: core: use C99 initializer in array of ioctl handlers
to make the correspondence of ioctl numbers and handlers more obvious.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-23 13:36:28 +02:00
Stefan Richter
02d37bed18 firewire: core: integrate software-forced bus resets with bus management
Bus resets which are triggered
  - by the kernel drivers after updates of the local nodes' config ROM,
  - by userspace software via ioctl
shall be deferred until after >=2 seconds after the last bus reset.

If multiple modifications of the local nodes' config ROM happen in a row,
only a single bus reset should happen after them.

When the local node's link goes from inactive to active or vice versa,
and at the two occasions of bus resets mentioned above --- and if the
current gap count differs from 63 --- the bus reset should be preceded
by a PHY configuration packet that reaffirms the gap count.  Otherwise a
bus manager would have to reset the bus again right after that.

This is necessary to promote bus stability, e.g. leave grace periods for
allocations and reallocations of isochronous channels and bandwidth,
SBP-2 reconnections etc.; see IEEE 1394 clause 8.2.1.

This change implements all of the above by moving bus reset initiation
into a delayed work (except for bus resets which are triggered by the
bus manager workqueue job and are performed there immediately).  It
comes with a necessary addition to the card driver methods that allows
to get the current gap count from PHY registers.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-13 09:58:27 +02:00
Stefan Richter
eb5b35a560 firewire: core: ensure some userspace API constants match corresponding kernel API constants
The FW_ISO_ constants of the in-kernel API of firewire-core and
FW_CDEV_ISO_ constants of the userspace API of firewire-core have
nothing to do with each other --- except that the core-cdev.c
implementation relies on them having the same values.

Hence put some compile-time assertions into core-cdev.c.  It's lame but
I prefer it over including the userspace API header into the kernelspace
API header and defining kernelspace API constants from userspace API
constants.  Nor do I want to expose the kernelspace constants in one of
the two firewire headers that are exported to userland since this only
concerns the core-cdev.c implementation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-13 09:47:47 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
a8e93f3dcc firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow
Check that the data length of a write quadlet request actually is large
enough for a quadlet.  Otherwise, fw_fill_request could access the four
bytes after the end of the outbound_transaction_event structure.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>

Modification of Clemens' change:  Consolidate the check into
init_request() which is used by the affected ioctl_send_request() and
ioctl_send_broadcast_request() and the unaffected
ioctl_send_stream_packet(), to save a few lines of code.

Note, since struct outbound_transaction_event *e is slab-allocated, such
an out-of-bounds access won't hit unallocated memory but may result in a
(virtually impossible to exploit) information disclosure.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-13 09:47:47 +02:00
Stefan Richter
250b2b6dd4 firewire: cdev: fix fw_cdev_event_bus_reset.bm_node_id
Fix an obscure ABI feature that is a bit of a hassle to implement.
However, somebody put it into the ABI, so let's fill in a sensible
value there.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-07-08 16:52:02 +02:00
Stefan Richter
e205597d18 firewire: cdev: fix ABI for FCP and address range mapping, add fw_cdev_event_request2
The problem:

A target-like userspace driver, e.g. AV/C target or SBP-2/3 target,
needs to be able to act as responder and requester.  In the latter role,
it needs to send requests to nods from which it received requests.  This
is currently impossible because fw_cdev_event_request lacks information
about sender node ID.
Reported-by: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>

Libffado + libraw1394 + firewire-core is currently unable to drive two
or more audio devices on the same bus.
Reported-by: Arnold Krille <arnold@arnoldarts.de>

This is because libffado requires destination node ID of FCP requests
and sender node ID of FCP responses to match.  It even prohibits
libffado from working with a bus on which libraw1394 opens a /dev/fw* as
default ioctl device that does not correspond with the audio device.
This is because libraw1394 does not receive the sender node ID from the
kernel.

Moreover, fw_cdev_event_request makes it impossible to tell unicast and
broadcast write requests apart.

The fix:

Add a replacement of struct fw_cdev_event_request request, boringly
called struct fw_cdev_event_request2.  The new event will be sent to a
userspace client instead of the old one if the client claims
compatibility with <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI version 4 or later.

libraw1394 needs to be extended to make use of the new event, in order
to properly support libffado and other FCP or address range mapping
users who require correct sender node IDs.

Further notes:

While we are at it, change back the range of possible values of
fw_cdev_event_request.tcode to 0x0...0xb like in ABI version <= 3.
The preceding change "firewire: expose extended tcode of incoming lock
requests to (userspace) drivers" expanded it to 0x0...0x17 which could
catch sloppily coded clients by surprise.  The extended range of codes
is only used in the new fw_cdev_event_request2.tcode.

Jay and I also suggested an alternative approach to fix the ABI for
incoming requests:  Add an FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_REQUEST_INFO ioctl which can
be called after reception of an fw_cdev_event_request, before issuing of
the closing FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_RESPONSE ioctl.  The new ioctl would reveal
the vital information about a request that fw_cdev_event_request lacks.
Jay showed an implementation of this approach.

The former event approach adds 27 LOC of rather trivial code to
core-cdev.c, the ioctl approach 34 LOC, some of which is nontrivial.
The ioctl approach would certainly also add more LOC to userspace
programs which require the expanded information on inbound requests.
This approach is probably only on the lighter-weight side in case of
clients that want to be compatible with kernels that lack the new
capability, like libraw1394.  However, the code to be added to such
libraw1394-like clients in case of the event approach is a straight-
forward additional switch () case in its event handler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-06-20 23:11:56 +02:00
Stefan Richter
604f451678 firewire: cdev: freeze FW_CDEV_VERSION due to libraw1394 bug
libraw1394 v2.0.0...v2.0.5 takes FW_CDEV_VERSION from an externally
installed header file and uses it to declare its own implementation
level in FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO.  This is wrong; it should set the real
version for which it was actually written.

If we add features to the kernel ABI that require the kernel to check
a client's implementation level, we can not trust the client version if
it was set from FW_CDEV_VERSION.

Hence freeze FW_CDEV_VERSION at the current value (no damage has been
done yet), clearly document FW_CDEV_VERSION as a dummy version and what
clients are expected to do with fw_cdev_get_info.version, and use a new
defined constant (which is not placed into the exported header file) as
kernel implementation level.

Note, in order to check in client program source code which features are
present in an externally installed linux/firewire-cdev.h, use
preprocessor directives like
  #ifdef FW_CDEV_IOC_ALLOCATE_ISO_RESOURCE
or
  #ifdef FW_CDEV_EVENT_ISO_RESOURCE_ALLOCATED
instead of a check of FW_CDEV_VERSION.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-06-20 23:11:56 +02:00
Stefan Richter
0244f57302 firewire: cdev: count references of cards during inbound transactions
If a request comes in to an address range managed by a userspace driver
i.e. <linux/firewire-cdev.h> client, the card instance of request and
response may differ from the card instance of the client device.
Therefore we need to take a reference of the card until the response was
sent.

I thought about putting the reference counting into core-transaction.c,
but the various high-level drivers besides cdev clients (firewire-net,
firewire-sbp2, firedtv) use the card pointer in their fw_address_handler
address_callback method only to look up devices of which they already
hold the necessary references.  So this seems to be a specific
firewire-cdev issue which is better addressed locally.

We do not need the reference
  - in case of FCP_REQUEST or FCP_RESPONSE requests because then the
    firewire-core will send the split transaction response for us
    already in the context of the request handler,
  - if it is the same card as the client device's because we hold a
    card reference indirectly via teh client->device reference.
To keep things simple, we take the reference nevertheless.

Jay Fenlason wrote:
> there's no way for the core to tell cdev "this card is gone,
> kill any inbound transactions on it", while cdev holds the transaction
> open until userspace issues a SEND_RESPONSE ioctl, which may be a very,
> very long time.  But when it does, it calls fw_send_response(), which
> will dereference the card...
>
> So how unhappy are we about userspace potentially holding a fw_card
> open forever?

While termination of inbound transcations at card removal could be
implemented, it is IMO not worth the effort.  Currently, the effect of
holding a reference of a card that has been removed is to block the
process that called the pci_remove of the card.  This is
  - either a user process ran by root.  Root can find and kill processes
    that have /dev/fw* open, if desired.
  - a kernel thread (which one?) in case of hot removal of a PCCard or
    ExpressCard.
The latter case could be a problem indeed.  firewire-core's card
shutdown and card release should probably be improved not to block in
shutdown, just to defer freeing of memory until release.

This is not a new problem though; the same already always happens with
the client->device->card without the need of inbound transactions or
other special conditions involved, other than the client not closing the
file.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-06-20 23:11:56 +02:00
Jay Fenlason
08bd34c98d firewire: cdev: fix responses to nodes at different card
My box has two firewire cards in it: card0 and card1.
My application opens /dev/fw0 (card 0) and allocates an address space.
The core makes the address space available on both cards.
Along comes the remote device, which sends a READ_QUADLET_REQUEST to
card1.  The request gets passed up to my application, which calls
ioctl_send_response().

ioctl_send_response() then calls fw_send_response() with card0,
because that's the card it's bound to.
Card0's driver drops the response, because it isn't part of
a transaction that it has outstanding.

So in core-cdev: handle_request(), we need to stash the
card of the inbound request in the struct inbound_transaction_resource and
use that card to send the response to.

The hard part will be refcounting the card correctly
so it can't get deallocated while we hold a pointer to it.

Here's a trivial patch, which does not do the card refcounting, but at
least demonstrates what the problem is.

Note that we can't depend on the fact that the core-cdev:client
structure holds a card open, because in this case the card it holds
open is not the card the request came in on.

..and there's no way for the core to tell cdev "this card is gone,
kill any inbound transactions on it", while cdev holds the transaction
open until userspace issues a SEND_RESPONSE ioctl, which may be a very,
very long time.  But when it does, it calls fw_send_response(), which
will dereference the card...

So how unhappy are we about userspace potentially holding a fw_card
open forever?

Signed-off-by: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>

Reference counting to be addressed in a separate change.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (whitespace)
2010-06-20 23:11:56 +02:00